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Samuel Augustus Maverick signed Texas' declaration of independence, fought in its war with Mexico, served in its Congresses, helped it join the Union. Just 100 years ago this month he was sworn in as second mayor of what is today the nation's southernmost big-little city, then the cow-town of San Antonio...
...London, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain used stronger words. He had chatted with former French Premier Leon Blum, who went over to London to try to persuade his British Labor colleagues to accept conscription. M. Blum had told Mr. Chamberlain what he considered the greatest danger of war in Europe today: the impression that Britain and France would not fulfill their promises. The Prime Minister told the ladies...
...necessary. Neither force nor ruse can avail against France. We have taken what military measures we consider necessary. We are not thinking of reducing but rather of increasing them. . . . Whatever may be the diversity and complexity of international problems, there is in reality only one issue in Europe today-thatof domination or collaboration. . . . We know what we must defend-our fatherland and our liberties, our beliefs, and our ideals of human dignity...
...enjoyed is now funneled off by Government command into industrially sterile armaments and showy public monuments. Before the War only 5% of the national income was spent on armaments-and that was a time when Colonel House was reporting that Berlin presented a spectacle of "militarism run stark mad." Today one-fourth of the national income goes for guns, fortresses and stadia for the self-glorification of Nazi party meetings...
Welfare & Warfare. Yet, though Reich chemists are working night and day, Germany is less able today to support a long war than she was in 1914. With Lorraine gone the iron ore supply is not enough. The available soil, even including the Bohemian and what could be seized in Poland, Hungary and Rumania, is not sufficient to produce both fodder crops for the cattle and breadstuffs, sugar beets, potatoes, vegetables, flax and hemp for the 152,300,000 population of a Middle European empire. Intensive grain cultivation operations are now being set up in East Prussia, but most...